2. Mr. Popper - Mr. Popper's Penguins
Mr. Popper's Penguins is a one-note joke of a film, with Carrey playing a real estate honcho who ends up being stuck with half-a-dozen penguins when his father dies. He initially tries to send them back, but eventually comes to realise that they can help him mend his broken bond with his children, in what is essentially a warm-hearted though inoffensively bland comedy suited well for young children but few others. The singular premise - revolving around the joke of a man being outwitted by small animals - feels wasted on an actor of Carrey's caliber, and this movie came at a particularly low point in the actor's career, causing it to smack even further of desperation. Some have said that Carrey is more subdued than in his earlier comic offerings, and that's true, often to the point of inertia.